A picture of the Noble Drew Ali, North Carolina-born Prophet of the Moorish Science Temple of America, adorns a page on the progressive Muslim Wake Up! website featuring a story by Laury Silvers, who has taken note of our contention… Read moreMoorish Science: “American Indigenous Islam”?
Evidence of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre continues to emerge from the earth of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the BBC reports Oct. 17. Of course our resident Chetniks will tell us this is all more imperialist lies, while their neo-Ustashe rivals (whom they mirror… Read moreMore mass graves in Bosnia
Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies reaches conclusions similar to those of WW4 REPORT’s recent commentary on Iraq’s pending consitution. Bennis writes in “The Iraqi Constitution: A Referendum for Disaster” (online at TruthOut): “The constitutional process culminating in… Read moreIraq constitution: referendum for disaster
Via TruthOut. Will approval (or rejection) of the new constitution similarly mark a further escalation of violence? 3,663 Iraqis Killed in Past 6 Months The Associated Press Friday 14 October 2005 Saturday’s vote on Iraq’s new constitution takes place nearly… Read moreAP: 3,663 Iraqis killed since new regime took power
Months after the fact, apparently, it is revealed that US troops have already engaged Syrian forces on the Iraqi border. Via TruthOut: GI’s and Syrians in Tense Clashes on Iraqi Border By James Risen and David E. Sanger The New… Read moreNYT: US troops clash with Syrians
Heavens to Murgatroid! Nuance in the pages of a contemporary left publication! Sasha Abramsky shows in the October issue of The Progressive that it is still, at least, possible. We at WW4 Report do have misgivings about some of what… Read moreThe left’s “al-Qaeda problem”
A review by former intelligence analysts concludes that the Bush administration “apparently paid little or no attention” to pre-war CIA assessments warning of major cultural and political obstacles to stability in post-war Iraq. The unclassified report, completed in July 2004,… Read moreReport: White House ignored CIA on Iraq chaos
How are we to read this one? Is the US conniving with the Sudan regime while trying to appear not to be? Or is the US gearing up for unilateral intervention in Sudan, and trying to make the UN appear… Read moreBolton bars UN testimony on Darfur
In an Oct. 9 interview with CNN, televangelist Pat Robertson—who recently got in hot water by calling for the assassination of Hugo Chavez—accused the Venezuelan president of giving Osama bin Laden $1.2 million after the 9-11 attacks and of trying… Read moreOsama bin Laden: football in US-Venezuela spat
In an Oct. 14 article in Russia’s Komsomolskaya Pravda, the newspaper claimed that it has “sensational” proof that imprisoned military intelligence (GRU) colonel Vladimir Kvachkov was involved in the apparent assassination attempt on Unified Energy Systems (EES) head Anatolii Chubais… Read moreImprisoned GRU colonel named in Chubais hit plot
A July 9 letter from al-Qaeda deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri to the organization’s supposed leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has allegedly been obtained by US forces in Iraq. The letter, released to the media, calls for the establishment of… Read moreAl-Zawahiri: kinder, gentler jihad?
Despite Indian aid to Pakistan-controlled Kashmir in the wake of the devastating earthquake which has claimed some 25,000 lives, news reports indicate concerns persist in New Delhi about how the divided region’s militant organizations are exploiting the disaster. An account… Read moreKashmir: Indo-Pak proxy politics persist despite disaster
